Paul Gauguin Quotes
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I wanted, before I died, to paint a big picture I had in mind and I have
worked feverishly night and day all month ... It was all dashed off,
directly with the top of a brush, on a piece of sacking full of knots
and rough bits.-- Paul Gauguin Quote
Prepare oneself for eternity. -- Paul Gauguin
Art is either plagiarism or revolution. -- Paul Gauguin
Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts. -- Paul Gauguin
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color
to every object; beware of this stumbling block. -- Paul Gauguin
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the
limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless
one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not
win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them. -- Paul
Gauguin
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise,
what would become of beauty? -- Paul Gauguin
But I owe something to Vincent Van Gogh, and that is . . . the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself. -- Paul Gauguin
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters. -- Paul Gauguin
I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one.
To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant. -- Paul Gauguin Quote
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone
believes that he has got the biggest piece. -- Paul Gauguin Quote
We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on
ourselves. -- Paul Gauguin Quote
Civilization is what makes you sick. -- Paul Gauguin Quote
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. -- Paul Gauguin Quote
I shut my eyes in order to see. -- Paul Gauguin Quote
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